Installation
Here’s a how-to setup your own Zabbix server on Debian 3.1 (with initial instuctions from the how-to forge) but you should be able to use this guide for any distro. You will notice however, if you check the how-to forge’s instructions, that I seem to be missing some steps. This is because they weren’t needed in my installation (for example I didn’t need to edit /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf and changing mysql’s password to “secret” created some problems. You can figure how to do these steps on your own anyway.
I used a minimal install, without any desktop enviroment and I use webmin for administration procedures. Most of the following will be from the terminal.
First install necessary packages that you’ll use to compile and setup your server.
mysql-server
mysql-dev
snmp-dev
php-mysql
php4-gd
fping
Now, setup the zabbix user and group
$groupadd zabbix
$useradd -c 'Zabbix' -d /home/zabbix -g zabbix -s /bin/bash zabbix
$mkdir /home/zabbix
$chown -R zabbix.zabbix /home/zabbix
$cd /home/zabbix
Download the source in the zabbix homedir. I used lynx.
Now compile and install (don’t forget to change your version number in case it changed
$cd /home/zabbix
$tar zxvpf zabbix-1.1beta9.tar.gz
$mv zabbix-1.1beta9 zabbix
$chown -R zabbix.zabbix /home/zabbix/zabbix
$cd zabbix
$su - zabbix
$mysql -p -u root
>create database zabbix
>quit
$mysql -u root -p zabbix < create/mysql/schema.sql
$mysql -u root -p zabbix < create/data/data.sql
$./configure --prefix=/usr --with-mysql --with-net-snmp --enable-server --enable-agent
$make
$su
$make install
$mkdir /etc/zabbix
$chown -R zabbix.zabbix /etc/zabbix/
$cp misc/conf/zabbix_* /etc/zabbix/
Edit the /etc/services file to declare the ports zabbix will use. Add the following lines
# Zabbix ports
zabbix_agent 10050/tcp
zabbix_trap 10051/tcp
If all went well, your zabbix server must be ready to use. Start it and the agent (so it can monitor itself)
$zabbix_server
$zabbix_agentd
Now lets add some router alarms
